NYT takes up Google-Alphabet-Uber law suit against AnthonyLevandowski regarding trade secrets of files when he left in 2016.

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The article reports:The statute defines the class of proprietary property “trade secret” as“any form and type of financial, business, scientific, technical, economic or engineering information, including patterns, plans, compilations, programs or codes, whether tangible or intangible, and whether or how stored, compiled or memorialized physically, electronically, graphically, photographically or in writing….But for information to qualify as such its owner must take “reasonable measures to keep such information secret and derive independent economic value from its not being generally known.

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The prosecutor must also show that transfer was done by improper means, meaning theft, bribery, misrepresentation, breach or inducement of a breach of duty to maintain secrecy, or espionage through electronic or other means. The statute does not define reverse engineering or other lawful means as such.